CHINA PAYS TOP DOLLAR TO US-BASED SCIENTISTS FOR THEIR WORK: U.S. taxpayers are unwittingly funding a significant part of the R&D costs for the Peoples’ Liberation Army in China. They do it through an innocuous sounding program, the Thousand Talents Program that pays (bribes?) scientists and other experts, including both foreign nationals working here in the states and U.S. citizens to transfer their work to China.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee’s permanent investigations subcommittee, is hearing from the FBI and other federal agencies at a hearing this morning. They will be grilled about why China has been able to do this right under their noses, essentially without interference until last year, despite the fact TTP violates multiples U.S. laws, regulations and policies.